Truth Manipulation Quotes

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

When you revise history, you lose it.

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

While I worry about an erosion of truth, I don’t think people want to live in a world where you can only say things that tech companies decide are 100 percent true.

Official truth is not actual truth.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

My instructions were, "You don't lie. You put your own interpretation on the truth.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."